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Ferryman's Pole, Part 3

...Off to the side downslope my ride I had time to unburden 
I don't know why but somehow thought I might could use my lasso
Tied there upon my saddle

On a small steep bluff it was just enough to s...

I EXALT MY BELOVED POETS’ BRAY

...
I have tasted my beloved poets’ Bray
In the three great books of our literature:
"The Book of Good Love," "La Celestina," and "Don Quixote"
As well as in García Lorca's The Ass
Who directed La ...

I Love Being Jet-lagged

...I said to the class,
"Now the first thing we're going to do, is feed this poem."
& I asked my friends, "Do you want to help me write an Arthurian epic?"
They replied, "Do we?!"

My son is writin...

September Is

...September is apples and honey,
New notebooks and sneakers for school,
The time to say so long to summer,
When days start to feel crisp and cool.

September is tennis and baseball,
Each sport wi...

I, Chimney

...One rain-soaked morning at the mill owner’s behest they assembled on the hillside.
High above his workers’ harsh existence, building commenced on the mansion.
Brick by brick, inch by inch I emerged...

Autumn's Russet Leaves

...Autumn's breeze teases the last russet leaves
clinging to branches with their golden fingers.
Seasonal change awakens Mother Nature's thieves,
a wildly wafting zephyr that doggedly lin...

The Wheels of Memory

...

Ever wonder what happens if one day they switched the Wheels of Fortune into the wheels of memory, with the host announcing, look folks today we play a new game, call it sympathy game, here is ho...

Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase

...
 twelve of us he choose to paint
    sons of Jacob in an earthen 
jar so sturdy
plonked us with vehemence
directed by neuronal cells 
skull protecting scrambled 
delicacy
          ...

The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming

...VI.

We are all metric modulations
of our former selves—changing time signatures
mid-measure, learning to count
in odd meters when life refuses
to conform to 4/4 expectations
fi...

Zen mode

...who within us feels the magnetic pull
who else but God, the dweller of our heart
announcing His presence in feeble form
causation that makes bliss ignition start...

The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck World

...I.

In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being...

Last Betrothal

...I heard
death call
before seeing
its face
Far in
the distance
it sent 
its embrace

Each sound
an omen
betrothed
deep inside
Announcing
the groom
awaiting
— the bride

(The New Room...

Along With the Thunder

...

The sky looks so irate and angry today.
Dark clouds strut and stamp along the sky.
Lightnings hoisted high move like tilt walkers.
Slithering sparks slice the lump of darkness into...

A lone voice whispers in 2025

...I can see
All the way from in here

That the fate of the world is on a precarious knife-edge

The black-robed vultures
Are gathering 

In secret covens and lodges
For their Great Cull

Car...

Through my open window

...the fresh air wafts in
meandering exploring
curious and capricious
gingerly bobbing
candidly playful
announcing with much enthusiasm
summer's arrival 




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